Michael Krüger (born 1943) is a German writer, publisher and translator.

Early life and education

Michael Krüger was born in 1943 in Wittgendorf, Saxony, Germany. He grew up in Berlin. After completing secondary schooling, he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature.

Career

From 1962 to 1965 Krüger worked as a bookseller in London. From 1968 he worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag, becoming director in 1986. He was also head of fiction publishing. In 1972 he published his first poems, with his first collection, Reginapoly, appearing in 1976 and his first collection of stories Was tun: Eine altmodische Geschichte (What shall we do: An old-fashioned story) in 1984. Several stories, novels and translations followed.

Recognition and awards

Krüger's work has garnered many important accolades, including the 1986 Toucan Prize and the 1996 Prix Médicis étranger.

Other activities

Krüger wrote the introduction to the 2010 New York Review of Books edition of Jakov Lind's Soul of Wood. From 1975 he became a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis. He is also a juror for the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Works